Mr James Aitken

James Aitken is a consultant general and colorectal surgeon at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital in Perth.  He qualified at Charing Cross Hospital in London and undertook surgical training in Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town.  He completed higher surgical training in Edinburgh where he then worked as a consultant for 10 years.  While in Edinburgh he was heavily involved with the Lothian Surgical Audit and the Scottish Audit of Surgical Mortality.  Following his move to Perth in 1998 he help establish the Western Australian Audit of Surgical Mortality that in 2005 became the Australian and New Zealand Audit of Surgical Mortality.  In 2016 he supervised the Perth Emergency Laparotomy Audit.  He is chair of the Australian and New Zealand Audit Emergency Laparotomy Audit – Quality Improvement working party.